Police on Monday arrested a Boston man after an investigation into possible drug trafficking at a hotel in Ellsworth.
Investigators with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Down East Task Force working with the Ellsworth Police Department conducted surveillance on a room at the Hawthorn Extended Stay Hotel after receiving complaints of suspected drug trafficking there, the MDEA said in a news release.
Agents were granted a search warrant for the hotel room. On Monday at about 9:30 p.m., they searched the room and seized more than 180 grams of crack cocaine, 16 grams of fentanyl, 15 grams of the sedative Xylazine, 3 grams of cocaine and $566 in suspected drug proceeds, according to the MDEA.
Authorities charged Asa Polk, 40, with two counts of Class A aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs and unlawful possession of a Schedule W drug.
Polk is scheduled to be arraigned in Hancock County Court on Wednesday. The MDEA said his bail has not been set “due to the seriousness of the charges.”